How Democrats Can Win Back Young Men (feat. Rep. Pat Ryan)
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Who is Congressman Pat Ryan?
His main focus in Congress is providing relief for Hudson Valley families, improving transportation for folks in his district, and investing in the United States Military Academy, where he hopes to provide for the next generation of military leaders. The congressman recently made headlines for calling Elon Musk a villain on CNN, which I loved. and for discussing how he believes young men can benefit from the Democratic Party. Congressman Ryan, welcome to the show. It's great to have you on.
Thanks for having me, Jess. I'm sorry, I'm choking on my coffee here. I apologize.
That's okay. I'm choking on my own voice, which is very millennial of me.
That's how excited I am to be on the show. I'm just like chugging coffee and got too excited. So I'm a huge fan of yours and appreciate the good fight that you continue to fight to actually say things that are truthful and authentic and honest on an important news channel that we all know is out there.
I appreciate that. And I was thinking to myself as I was walking down here that it's nice to actually meet you in person because I use you as an example all the time because my colleagues on The Five will say, the Democratic Party is so crazy and you don't have anyone normal. And I'm like, have you met Congressman Pat Ryan? And now I have you here. Super excited to have you here. I want to get to the meta stuff, but it start with a news of the day topic. Everyone is talking about Elon Musk and Doge and the quote unquote forensic audit they're doing of the government. You made, as I already referenced, a comment about him being a villain. Can you talk a little bit about what you think is going on with the Trump administration and also what you're hearing from your constituents as we're just a few weeks into Trump 2.0?
Yeah, and I think it's really important to center the American people and my constituents on what they're hearing and feeling, which is an unprecedented, we've got an unprecedented level of calls, emails, texts. Honestly, friends, I haven't talked to like a decade or texting me like, dude, what is going on? What can we do? And people are rightly deeply concerned about an unprecedented encroachment
What did Pat Ryan mean by calling Elon Musk a villain?
on our privacy, on at least one, if not multiple amendments in the Bill of Rights. And I think that it calls for appropriate aggressive action. And I've tried to give all the new administration the benefit of the doubt, but it's very clear to me, Elon Musk is a villain and we have to talk in our The moment we're in, we have to have heroes and villains in our story as Democrats. And Musk has now certainly earned that title. And we should hold him accountable, not only for getting all up in everybody's private data at Treasury and these other agencies, but also I'm going to start shining a light through my role in the Armed Services Committee. in the potential, if not certain, corruption around all his defense contracts, where he stands to personally make an incredible billions of dollars with access to privilege, access to information and connections based on how much money his companies have already been paid before he was in this position. Forget about now.
So I think we're in a moment right now, more broadly, maybe talk about this more later, where We have to be in just constant communication with, in my case, 800,000 constituents, with the American people, and without judgment, and certainly without any condescension, just describing what the real harmful impacts of this is and will be, the harmful impacts of the funding freeze, whether that's Head Starts in my district that still don't have funding to feed and care for kids, or 20 veteran inpatient beds at my local VA that I go to,
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Congressman Pat Ryan?
0:45–2:43
2
What did Pat Ryan mean by calling Elon Musk a villain?
2:43–10:16
3
How can Democrats connect with young men?
10:16
4
What role does military service play in leadership?
10:16–14:46
5
How can Democrats focus on affordability?
14:46–16:43
6
What is the importance of messaging in politics?
16:43–17:50
7
What is Pat Ryan's vision for the Democratic Party?
17:50–27:26
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